Oslender Ulrich Oslender

Geographies of Social Movements (eBook, PDF)

Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how the work of local community councils, which have organized around newly granted ethnic and land rights since the early 1990s, is anchored to space and place. Exploring how residents' social relationships are entangled with the region's rivers, streams, swamps, rain, and tides, Oslender argues that this "e;aquatic space"e;-his conceptualization of the mutually constitutive relationships between people and their rain forest environment-provides a local epistemology that has shaped the political process. Oslender demonstrates that social mobilization among Colombia's Pacific Coast black communities is best understood as emerging out of their place-based identity and environmental imaginaries. He argues that the critical place perspective proposed accounts more fully for the multiple, multiscalar, rooted, and networked experiences within social movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374404
• Artikelnr.: 54793243

Autorenporträt

Ulrich Oslender is Associate Professor of Geography at Florida International University and the coeditor of Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Prologue. Black Communities in Colombia and the Constitution of 1991  1
Introduction. The Geographies of Social Movements  7
1. Toward a Critical Place Perspective on Social Movements  25
Interlude. Meeting Don Agapito: Reflections on Fieldwork  36
2. Mapping Meandering Poetics and an Aquatic Sense of Place: Oral Tradition
as Hidden Transcript of Resistance  46
3. Historical Geographies of Resistance and Convivencia in the Pacific
Lowlands  92
4. Mobilizing the Aquatic Space: The Forming of Community Councils  135
5. Ideals, Practices, and Leadership of the Community Councils  159
Epilogue  205
Notes  221
Glossary  251
References  255
Index  277